IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/vrs/bjeust/v8y2018i1p197-209n11.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Protecting Economic Interests or the Right to Life? Perception of the European Court of Justice on Emergency Medical Services1

Author

Listed:
  • Uusitalo Jenna

    (Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki P.O. box 4, Yliopistonkatu 3, Helsinki FI-00014, Finland)

Abstract

European Union (EU) was founded to strengthen European integration through purely economic cooperation while disregarding human rights. However, throughout its existence the EU has been challenged to take a stand on human rights. In fact, the application and promotion of human rights has increased significantly in recent years, especially during the last 15 years, mainly thanks to the establishment of the Charter of Fundamental Rights in 2000. Through the selected cases concerning emergency medical services, this paper examines how the arguments of the European Court of Justice have eventually been shifting from purely economic ideology towards more human rights based approach. However, the article essentially argues that the full potential of human rights to support the claims that are inherently economic in their nature has not yet been utilized and therefore the essential aim of the Charter to strengthen human rights protection in the EU remains unachieved.

Suggested Citation

  • Uusitalo Jenna, 2018. "Protecting Economic Interests or the Right to Life? Perception of the European Court of Justice on Emergency Medical Services1," TalTech Journal of European Studies, Sciendo, vol. 8(1), pages 197-209, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:vrs:bjeust:v:8:y:2018:i:1:p:197-209:n:11
    DOI: 10.1515/bjes-2018-0011
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/bjes-2018-0011
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1515/bjes-2018-0011?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:vrs:bjeust:v:8:y:2018:i:1:p:197-209:n:11. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Peter Golla (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.sciendo.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.